Rustam Akurdikar

Rustam Akurdikar (1666-) was a general of the Maratha Confederacy.

Biography
Akurdikar was born in the Maratha capital of Satara in Bijapur, and became a general of the Marathas by 1700. Fighting in the Deccan Wars, he expelled the Mughals from the port of Bombay, which they had briefly occupied and raided.